them hear, they would [still] have turned away, while they were averse.} (Al-Anfāl: 22-23).

And the Almighty said:

{You killed them not, but Allah killed them. And you threw not when you threw, but Allah threw, that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.} (Al-Anfāl: 17).

And He (the Almighty) said, informing about them:

{Deaf, dumb, and blind—so they do not reason.} (Al-Baqarah: 171).

And He (the Almighty) said:

{Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are only like cattle; nay, they are even farther astray from the path.} (Al-Furqān: 44).

This is a hint pointing out that after their settling in cattle and other metamorphosed forms (mamsūkhāt), they settle in inanimate objects and plants, thus becoming "farther astray from the path."